“The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.”
Source: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 15, p. 354
“In the case of colors, there is a tridimensional spread of feelings.”
The Law of Mind (1892)
Context: In the case of colors, there is a tridimensional spread of feelings. Originally all feelings may have been connected in the same way, and the presumption is that the number of dimensions was endless. For development essentially involves a limitation of possibilities. But given a number of dimensions of feeling, all possible varieties are obtainable by varying the intensities of the different elements.
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